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James Taranto

The audacity of 51%

Do you see the problem here? The annual budget deficit has been running at around $1.2 trillion. (The Hill reports the deficit for October alone was $120 billion.) Raising taxes on “the wealthiest 2%,” it is estimated, would increase government revenues $829 billion over a decade. When Van Roekel says the tax hike “takes us a long way there,” he’s off by an order of magnitude…

The Obama tax hikes would both be too much and too little–too much not to dampen already weak economic growth, too little to stop the rapid accumulation of debt.

Meanwhile, National Journal reports that “Senate Democratic leaders . . . rejected putting any entitlement reforms forward ahead of Friday’s meeting” with congressional leaders at the White House. “In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid talked only about what he won’t accept during negotiations–namely, any changes to Social Security.”

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Republicans better begin to understand that the goal of the left does not include capitalism, or rich people (except themselves of course, socialist leaders are exempt from their own ideology). They will never stop.

These people follow the communist manifesto whether they really realize it or not.
The question for America is, do we embrace the Constitutional Republic that once was, or do we embrace a socialist AKA communist government?

When things come crashing down, I hope conservatives provide the masses with maps to the mansions of all the uber-wealthy politicians and their supporters. I’m looking forward to Obama supporters taking up residence in the Kennedy compounds, north and south, and in the digs of John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and all the others who promised them that which they couldn’t deliver.